Approximately 20,500 seasonal agricultural workers and three companies whose fields they labored in may move forward with a nearly $7.9 million deal to resolve their wage-and-hour suit after almost a decade of litigation.
More than $4.6 million of the settlement will go to the workers, after accounting for attorneys’ fees and other expenses, representing somewhere between 20% and 28% of the estimated wages and interest recovery amount, the US District Court for the Eastern District of California said, granting the preliminary approval motion.
The workers accuse commercial grower Fowler Packing Co., labor contractor AG Force LLC, and crop ...
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